Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

"[to the predatory skuas] Retribution is near my fine feathered friends. Make no mistake about that. [as he attacks the skuas with a catapult] You've asked for it, now you'll get it! Now it's your turn! You hear me? Go on, get out! GET OUT! ALL OF YOU! Die, damn you! Die! DO YOU HEAR ME? DIE! DIE!"

"[after waiting for days and no penguins in sight] Well, if they're so strapped to the life force that they have to find their way back here to this refrigerated graveyard every year, that's their bad luck. God, I wish they'd get here and get it over. Oh, blast you all, wherever you are!"

"[as he spots the first lone penguin waddling down a snowy hillside] Most revered and welcome bird! I greet you!"

"[writing to Tara after a Navy chopper scares away all the penguins] The wretched birds have been scattered over this benighted landsacpe like bits of black pepper. They've used up so much of their courage already. Will they be able to find enough to come back? I wonder? I'm afraid."

"[In his final taped message to Tara] They'll be back again next year, struggling over the same barren stretch of ice to breed the next generation. And so it will go on, as long as there are penguins and skuas and the will to survive. And what have I learned from it all? That every living creature depends in some way on every other. Humans too. I'm not the same to myself anymore, Tara. Will I seem the same to you, and you to me?"

"A Tip-Top Adventure At The Bottom Of The World!"

"Can survival in the Antarctic Wilderness change a man?"

"...the zaniest bunch of birds on the South Pole!"

"John Hurt as Richard Forbush"

"Hayley Mills as Tara St. John Luke"

"Dudley Sutton as Starshot"

"Tony Britton as George Dewport"

"Thorley Walters as Mr. Forbush Sr."

"Judy Campbell as Mrs. Forbush"

"Joss Ackland as The Leader"

"Nicholas Pennell as Julien"

"Avril Angers as Fanny"

"Cyril Luckham as Tringham"

"Sally Geeson as Jackie"

"Brian Oulton as Food-Store Clerk"

"John Comer as Police Sergeant"